Evidence offered to prove past medical expenses shall be limited to evidence of the amounts
actually paid to satisfy the bills that have been satisfied, regardless of the source of payment,
and evidence of the amounts actually necessary to satisfy the bills that have been incurred
but not yet satisfied. Evidence of the amounts actually necessary to satisfy the bills that
have been incurred shall not exceed the amount by which the bills could be satisfied by the
claimant’s health insurance, regardless of whether such health insurance is used or will be
used to satisfy the bills. This section does not impose upon any party an affirmative duty to
seek a reduction in billed charges to which the party is not contractually entitled.
2020 Acts, ch 1070, §1
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622.5 through 622.7 Reserved.
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622.8 Witness for each other.
In all civil and criminal cases the husband and wife may be witnesses for each other.
[C51, §2391; R60, §3983; C73, §3641; C97, §4606; S13, §4606; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11261;
C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §622.8]
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Notes of Decisions
Cited in
97
cases, 1946–1983 · leading case:
State v. Horn, 282 N.W.2d 717 (Iowa 1979).
State v. Horn, 282 N.W.2d 717 (Iowa 1979).
· cites it 11× “He contends section 622.4,The Code 1977, prohibits the admission of such testimony.”
Kimmel v. Iowa Realty Co., Inc., 339 N.W.2d 374 (Iowa 1983).
· cites it 6× “Objections Based on Parol Evidence Rule and Iowa Code § 622.4 . Iowa Realty also asserts reversible error as a result of trial court rulings on objections to evidence.”
Carlson v. Bankers Trust Co., 50 N.W.2d 1 (Iowa 1951).
· cites it 10× “Plaintiff’s husband was permitted to testify to a conversation between testatrix and plaintiff at the latter’s home on Christmas Day, 1949, over defendant’s objection he was incompetent under section 622.4, Code, 1950, which provides: “No party to any action * * * nor any person…”
In Re Est. of Conner, 36 N.W.2d 833 (Iowa 1948).
· cites it 10× “ney and instructed him to deliver it- to Ellis when she died; that he placed the certificate in a safe-deposit box in the bank in which all her papers were kept but to which she had no access; that when the certificate matured he credited her drawing account with the interest…”
Selken v. Northland Ins. Co., 90 N.W.2d 29 (Iowa 1958).
· cites it 12× “The testimony of the acting manager and secretary in the office of Midwest Motor Agency was not competent under the provisions of Section 622.4, 1954 Code, I.C.A., in view of the death of the manager who had signed the cancellation notice.”
Bell v. Pierschbacher, 62 N.W.2d 784 (Iowa 1954).
· cites it 8× “Bell over objection that the witness was incompetent under section 622.4, Code, 1950,. which provides: “No party to any action * * *, nor any person interested in the event thereof * * * shall be examined as a witness in regard to any personal transaction or communication…”
Knight v. Anderson, 292 N.W.2d 411 (Iowa 1980).
· cites it 6× “Their testimony was not barred by the dead man’s statute, section 622.4, The Code. It is also important to note in this regard that Dean Jacobs, as a businessman involved in farming, wool, and furs, wrote little down himself and considered “his word as his bond.”
Davis v. Travelers Ins. Co., 196 N.W.2d 526 (Iowa 1972).
· cites it 8× “It denied generally the allegations of the motion and maintained Houghton was incompetent under Code section 622.4, commonly known as the "dead man statute".”
Hamilton v. Bethel, 131 N.W.2d 445 (Iowa 1964).
· cites it 14× “Subject to the objection he was an incompetent witness under section 622.4, Code, 1962, the dead man statute, William testified that on a Sunday morning in August 1957 his mother gave him the note and said, “ ‘That’s jmurs.”
In Re Est. of Lenders, 78 N.W.2d 536 (Iowa 1956).
· cites it 6× “Elliott has a direct financial interest in the outcome of the proceeding.”
Connell v. Hays, 122 N.W.2d 341 (Iowa 1963).
· cites it 8× “Was the evidence introduced by defendants such as to lift the prohibition of Code section 622.4 and permit plaintiff in rebuttal to testify as to personal transactions and communications she allegedly had with decedent? *264 3.”
Thorne v. Reiser, 60 N.W.2d 784 (Iowa 1953).
· cites it 10× “It is contended the court erred in holding defendants incompetent, by reason of the “dead man statute” (section 622.4, Iowa Code, 1950), to testify as to their personal transactions with Mrs.”
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